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Car forums are indeed full of people who want light cars that handle well with a good amount of power and a good manual gearbox. Sadly these people are not going out and buying cars like that in any great numbers, and the folks who want something with great 0-60 times for willy-waving down the pub along with a premium badge are on the increase. That's life.

Then buy a proper warm hat, not a chavvy one. Pfft, philistine.

Chav

I guess the previous owner must've removed it. That's pretty harsh then, you have my sympathies.

Should've sat in the car, let him start it, pretend to get really excited then just p*ss yourself all over the seats.

Oof, good shout. Or belts that are miles too long and then not tucked in.

The theory is sound, but how much voltage stabilising do you think you need? Modern batteries are superb, no need for any of this rubbish that just adds one more thing to go wrong.

Bloody useless. You'll never get a sale like that, unless someone's a mug. No local VW main dealers? Should be more helpful.

Snake oil. If you're not having electrical problems, then don't introduce an unknown magic box that could cause them.

Looks a good job fella

I would say that it's the single biggest contributory factor, yes. Not trying to poke a man when he's down, but why did you think that? Do you not have a 98RON ONLY sticker under your fuel cap?

Any item of clothing with a Ferrari badge on it. It all just looks so amazingly tacky. Superdry clothing. More chav than Burberry ever was. A hat (other than a baseball cap worn purely to keep the sun off my face when out and about). I'd love to get a nice fedora and strut around like a boss, but every one I've ever tried makes me look like a kid who has pinched his Dad's hat for Dressing Up Day at primary school.

And they barely sold any IFAs. GT-R is hardly flying off the shelves like it was when it was £55K. Don't get wrong, I don't give a toss about badges either which is why I bought a Vauxhall over a Lotus, but the market as a whole would not be buying a Toyota when you can get the BMW for £10K more.

£50K in '93 would be £93K today, adjusted for inflation. I'd expect that to be about right. I don't know where BMW will pitch their version, given the i8 exists at close to that price point. However, no-one in their right mind will pay £90K for a Toyota. Tbh, I can't see anyone paying £50K for a Toyota!

It's a racecar, you couldn't get a GT-R or Porsche to run in the same class for that money. HP and torque are absolutely fine, if they went any further they'd go up a class and be well outgunned then.

Ah it was many years ago now (sold up in 2010) and I was living in Braintree at the time too. I need to clean mine too, I'd forgotten just how quickly the dirt settles on them.

If it's the same car underneath as the BMW offering, then you'd be better off with the German as we know the interior will be a nice place to be, and I suspect it'll lose less on the depreciation as well. All irrelevant really given the price tag these things are going to come out at!

The interior and an extra 500 revs makes a HUGE difference, IMHO.

MPS4 after a bit of research and speaking to people who know, and MPSC2 just because I want to try the ultimate

Impossible to say, as either you want to be able to put the roof down or you don't. The silver car is better for me though, as it's a facelift so you don't get the dreadful interior and the crappy headlights. And it's on the Rays, not the heavy OEM wheels.

Please tell me you weren't using 95RON...

MPS4S aren't available in 18", so irrelevant right now. MPS2 are old hat, don't bother. MPSS are utterly brilliant. MPS4 are supposed to be significantly better, despite not being a successor to the MPSS. I'll likely be going to MPS4 or MPSC2 after my current MPSS.

It's not your driving you need to be concerned with, it's when Doris The Blind pulls out in front of you and you need to make a rapid change of direction. That could be the difference between the car responding correctly and you putting it into the armco. Tbh if you want decent tyres, I'd be putting MPSS or MPS4 on instead of the AD08R. You'll have 90% of the dry traction and 200% better wet traction, which you'll want if the TD is a wet one. Plenty of us on here run the MPSS on their cars, and there is no better road tyre available right now for 18" wheels. Trust me

Oh man, that's awful Do you have anywhere else lined up you could go, even temp for a month or two?

Jesus, mixed tyres across an axle is a huge no-no! Please, get them changed like yesterday. Seriously, that's really dangerous. If you don't know what you like then yes, might as well get it set to factory and go from there. Have the front toe set as close to neutral as you can though, and you don't really want more than 1deg of neg camber on the rear. But don't wait until March.